Wow I am so very sorry for the late update! I honestly meant to update……at the beginning of last month….I had no idea it would take me more than a month to get a single chapter written. I'll try to do better but I'm making no promises. I've been absolutely exhausted with my job and everything going on. I will try to make sure there is an update by Christmas.

Please note this story is ending soon. I'm thinking by 10. It was never meant to have a long complex plot, only enough to have a reuniting of Chihiro and Haku.

And with that, on with the story! Please enjoy!


Last Time:

The next morning Chihiro awoke feeling unrested and groggy.

'I'm gonna be sick…' Chihiro thought before rushing into the bathroom next to her room.

She kneeled at the toilet and began throwing up blood.

Haku, having just got back from his swim, smelled the blood.

"Chihiro!? What's wrong?" he asked panicked by the closed door of the bathroom.

Chihiro, to weak to answer, groaned.

Haku burst open the door and saw the blood and Chihiro laying on the cold tile.

"CHIHIRO?!"

This Time:

Haku rushed to Chihiro's petite, unconscious body. He started calling to wake her. Nothing happened. Haku started to panic. He lifted the girl from the tiled floor and rushed her to his bedroom.

"AYA! GET THE DOCTOR NOW!" Haku shouted from his room.

Aya looked in curiously. The curiosity turned to horrified annoyance.

She stalked off and out the door out of the house quickly. Not because she cared about the human, but because she was scared of what Haku would do if she didn't get a doctor soon.

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Back inside, Haku was trying to rouse an unconscious Chihiro.

"Chihiro, come on, wake up…"

Chihiro groaned but did not wake.

A half hour passed and Chihiro was still unconscious, but her breathing was steadier than before.

Just when Haku was about to give up hope on the doctor getting there on time, Aya slammed the door open with an annoyed expression and a doctor right behind her.

The doctor shooed Haku from the room, shut the door, and got to work.

Outside the bedroom, Haku paced back and forth glancing at the door every ten seconds.

Aya glared and said, "What's so special about that human anyway? They're all alike, disgusting liars."

Haku spun around, "That HUMAN has a name: Chihiro. And she's not like other humans. If you gave her a chance you would know that!"

Aya shrunk back from his wrath and spun out of the room with a huff.

He glared for another minute at Aya's retreating back before continuing his pacing.

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It seemed like hours had passed before the doctor came out again.

Haku rushed to her side immediately , stopping only inches from her face.

"Well." he asked, "What's going on? Is she going to be okay?"

The doctor smiled kindly as she answered, "She's going to be more than okay. I've never seen something like this before, but I know she will be fine and make a full recovery."

"What's wrong with her?"

"Why? You can't smell it? Try."

Haku looked at her strangly before taking a deep whiff. He could only smell the doctor, Aya, and a sweet perfumed smell of vanilla coming from Chihiro's room. She didn't smell….human….

"That's right Master Haku. She's turning into a spirit."

"…How…?" Haku was stunned.

"You see, when a human arrives they are given a type of seed of shall we say, spirit power. Normally they leave and the seed never blooms. But upon returning, the seed appears to bloom. Miss Chihiro came once, the seed was planted. She came back, the seed has begun to bloom. As to what she will be…well it's based on personality."

Haku was stunned. A spirit? This meant they could be together forever without worrying about her mortality!

The doctor closed the door softly behind her. Those two reminded her so much of herself. She walked out the front door lost in the memories of the day she met her husband oh so long ago…

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TBC

Please tell me what kind of spirit you want for Chihiro so I can update sooner….and PLEASE no one say dragon! I don't want something so cliché.